Agrible closed its Series A funding at $4.1 million as Flyover Capital joins previously announced backers Serra Ventures and Archer Daniels Midland. Agrible is an agricultural software startup based in Champaign, Illinois.
2 min read · 02 February 2016
Salesfloor, an e-commerce platform that connects sales associates with online shoppers, closed a $3 million seed funding round. BDC Capital IT Venture Fund and London-based angels Jamie True and Jon Claydon led the round.
2 min read · 02 February 2016
Washington, D.C.-based FiscalNote, a startup building a platform for analyzing government risk, raised $10 million in Series C funding. Visionnaire Ventures and Green Visor Capital led the round with participation from investors that included New Enterprise Associates and Mark Cuban. The round brings the two-year old company’s total financing to over $30 million.
2 min read · 02 February 2016
Berlin-based Spotcap, an online lending platform for small businesses, raised 31.5 million euros ($34.4 million) in its third financing round in 18 months. Russian firm Finstar Financial Group led the round with participation form previous investor Holtzbrinck Ventures. Spotcap had previously raised 18 million euros ($19.7 million).
3 min read · 02 February 2016
EQT Ventures led a nearly $6 million Series A funding round for Munich-based riskmethods, a global supply chain risk management provider. Existing investors Senovo, Point Nine and Bayern Kapital also participated.
4 min read · 02 February 2016
Tel Aviv, Israel-based Seebo, an internet of things platform, raised $8.5 million in Series A funding. Carmel Ventures, a member of the Viola Group, led the round with participation from existing investors, including TPY Capital. As part of the deal, Carmel general partner Ori Bendori will join Seebo’s board of directors.
3 min read · 02 February 2016
Pritzker Group Venture Capital hired Sonia Nagar as vice president. Nagar joins the firm’s Chicago office from RetailMeNot, where she was vice president of product and head of mobile apps.
2 min read · 02 February 2016
Lewis & Clark Ventures closed a $104 million early stage venture fund targeting investments in the Midwest. The fund will focus primarily on Series A and B round VC investments in the size of $3 to $7 million to high growth companies. Lewis & Clark announced in December a $25 million commitment from Express Scripts to support new healthcare technologies and companies.
2 min read · 02 February 2016
Cambridge, Massachusetts-based Spero Therapeutics, a biopharmaceutical company targeting drug resistant bacterial infections, raised $30 million in Series B preferred financing, matching the $30 million Series A round Spero raised in June. Existing Series A investors Atlas Venture, SR One, MRL Ventures, Lundbeckfond Ventures, The Kraft Group and Partners Innovation Fund all returned to participated.
5 min read · 02 February 2016
Stockholm and Palo Alto-based Creandum has closed its latest fund at 180 million euros (approximately $196 million), the firm said in a statement. Creandum IV was oversubscribed and reached its hard cap in one first and final closing. Fundraising began in September. The fund will primarily target seed and Series A investments.
1 min read · 01 February 2016
